Agrippa had helped to secure Claudius ' accession after the assassination of Caligula, and was appointed king of Judea.

* The first known emperor that was appointed by the Praetorian Guards after the murder of Caligula, was Claudius.

On the day that the Circus Games occurred, Caligula had a statue made of Agrippina ’ s image to be paraded in a covered carriage at the Games.

The Smiths song " Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now " refers to Caligula: " What she asked of me at the end of the day / Caligula would have blushed ".

On January 24, AD 41, Caligula and his family were murdered by a conspiracy led by Cassius Chaerea, and later that day, the Praetorian Guard proclaimed Claudius the new emperor and Messalina the new empress.

Agrippa was one day overheard by his freedman Eutyches expressing a wish for Tiberius ' death and the advancement of Caligula, and for this he was cast into prison.

* On this day, the future Roman Emperor Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( born 12, died 41, emperor 37 – 41 ) " Caligula " was named consul by the Roman Senate in 31.

Named after her late aunt and her father's favorite sister, Julia Drusilla, Julia was born not long after Caligula married Caesonia ( some sources have her being born on the same day as the marriage ).

A conspiracy to assassinate Caligula and replace him with his uncle, Claudius, had been in discussion for some time and that day had been decided for the event.

Suetonius claims that Caligula issued a proclamation the next day that he had acquired a new wife in the tradition of Romulus and Augustus, who had both stolen wives from other men.

Certain past and present members including Blackmoon, Ahriman, Caligula and Chaq Mol have each declared an affinity for Satanism, with Ahriman and Caligula notably being practitioners of LaVeyan Satanism.

Caligula was briefly married to Junia Claudilla in 33, though she died in childbirth the following year.

During the same year, though, Caligula was criticized for executing people without full trials and for forcing his helper Macro to commit suicide.

Caligula ordered Gemellus killed within his first year.

Caligula began his first year as emperor in 38, and there was a severe conflict between him and Seneca ; the emperor is said to have spared his life only because he expected Seneca's natural life to be near its end.

Piso would return to Rome one year later after Caligula ’ s assassination.

Augustus did it in his twenty-fourth year, Caligula in his twentieth.

According to Suetonius, Macro gained further favor by turning a blind eye to his wife Eunia's affair with Caligula around the year 34 AD.

When Tiberius died in the year 37 AD, Macro immediately sided with the new Emperor Caligula.

When 19 years old, he made his stage debut at a theater in Nice ; and the following year his strong performance in the Albert Camus play, Caligula, brought an invitation to work with the Théâtre national populaire ( T. N. P.

A year later, Caligula named his only known daughter Julia Drusilla after his late favorite sister.

In CE 38, Paulina was with Regulus at the province he was governing when Caligula ordered her to leave her husband upon overhearing a remark about her grandmother's beauty — Paulina was forced to divorce Regulus and marry Caligula, becoming his third wife and Empress that same year.

Whether the conspiracy was real or not, Caligula so accused him and Lepidus was executed in the same year.

When Caligula was murdered that same year he made a speech in the Senate welcoming the return of liberty and urging his fellow senators to preserve it.

As proof of devotion to his family, Caligula arranged the most distinguished soldiers available to carry the urns of his mother and two brothers in two biers at noon in Rome, when the streets were at their busiest, to the Mausoleum of Augustus.

A bronze medal on display in the British Museum shows Agrippina ’ s ashes being brought back to Rome by Caligula.

As a small child, she travelled with her parents throughout the Empire until she and her siblings ( apart from Caligula ) returned to Rome to live with and be raised by Antonia.

Caligula accepted the powers of the Principate as conferred by the Senate and entered Rome on 28 March amid a crowd that hailed him as " our baby " and " our star ," among other nicknames.

The Vatican Obelisk was first brought from Egypt to Rome by Caligula.

Caligula invited Ptolemy to Rome and then had him suddenly executed.

Ancient resources as well as recent archaeological evidence suggest that, at one point, Caligula had the palace extended to annex this structure. When several kings came to Rome to pay their respects to him and argued about their nobility of descent, he cried out " Let there be one Lord, one King ".

Caligula took things a step further and had those in Rome, including Senators, worship him as a physical living god.

Cameo depicting Caligula and a personification of Rome

Eventually the Roman emperor Caligula abandoned the Augustan wariness toward what was described as oriental cults, and it was in his reign that the Isiac festival of the Navigium Isidis was established in Rome.

Immediately after the death of Tiberius ( 37 AD ), Caligula made over to Herod Agrippa, at that time a prisoner in Rome, the tetrarchy of Philip and the tetrarchy of Lysanias, while Claudius, upon his accession ( 41 ), not only confirmed the liberality of his predecessor towards Herod Agrippa, but added all that portion of Judaea and Samaria which had belonged to the kingdom of his grandfather Herod the Great, together ( says Josephus ) with Abila, which had appertained to Lysanias, and the adjoining region of Libanus.

During the reign of Caligula she is so disgusted by the state of Rome that she commits suicide.

Rome to argue community interests before Caligula ( in 40 ) in response to conflict between Greeks, Jews and Egyptians.

In 40 AD, the emperor Caligula banished Piso from Rome after he took a fancy to Piso ’ s wife.

The life of Claudius provided Graves with a way to write about the first four Emperors of Rome ( Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, and Claudius ) from an intimate point of view.

The only event in his life that can be determined chronologically is his participation in the embassy in which the Alexandrian Jews were sent to the emperor Caligula at Rome as the result of civil strife between the Alexandrian Jewish and Greek communities.

In Flaccus, Philo tells indirectly of his own life in Alexandria by describing how the situation of Jews in Alexandria changed after Gaius Caligula became the emperor of Rome.

At Capri, Caligula finds his uncle has become depraved, showing signs of advanced venereal diseases, and embittered with Rome and politics.

Caligula production was housed in Dear Studios, Rome, where the infamous Cleopatra had been filmed thirteen years earlier.

Demetrius (; 1st century ), a Cynic philosopher from Corinth, who lived in Rome during the reigns of Caligula, Nero and Vespasian ( 37-71 AD ).

Ben-Sasson has proposed that the " Crisis under Caligula " ( 37 – 41 ) was the " first open break between Rome and the Jews ".

in The Twelve Caesars, Suetonius attributes the following quote to Tiberius, speaking about the future emperor Caligula, " Caius ( Caligula ) was destined to be the destruction of him, and them all ; and that he was cherishing a hydra for the people of Rome, and a Phaeton for all the world " This means, more or less, that Caligula will bring about the destruction of the Empire.